It turned out to be tremendously lucky. It’s just repellent enough to filter curious onlookers and just quirky enough that parents don’t like it.
JERRY GARCIAAs long as we can play, we’ll play, regardless of what it’s for, who it’s for or anything. It’s fun for us – that’s the important thing.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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For me, the lame part of the Sixties was the political part, the social part. The real part was the spiritual part.
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The Grateful Dead plays at religious services essentially.
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The bigger issue, was the whole takeover of the food industry by big corporations.
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We play at the religious services of the new age. Everybody gets high, and that’s what it’s all about really.
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Some things may work, but they definitely won’t work every time. Some things may work at various times.
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Music is a universal language insofar as you don’t need to know anything else about a musician that you are playing with other than that they can play music.
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The pursuit of happiness is an overview kind of thing. It’s not in the Bill of Rights.
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You listen to a politician making a speech, and it is like hearing nothing. Whereas, music is unmistakably music.
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We’re like licorice. Not everybody likes licorice, but the people who like licorice really like licorice.
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The world that you can go walk outside and walk around the block. That’s reality. The reality that’s being talked about is something else entirely.
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It’s pretty clear now that what looked like it might have been some kind of counterculture is, in reality, just the plain old chaos of undifferentiated weirdness.
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I’m trying to have a guitar built. What’s needed is better instruments, better amplifiers, better hardware for electric music to get better.
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Everybody needs adventure, and everybody needs something to enlarge his or her lives.
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Music is more objective, I think, than a lot of art is, but a surprising amount of it is cultural.
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I think that the revolution in music is over, and what’s left is a mop-up action. It’s a matter of the news getting out to everybody else.
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